The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-02-16
COAL OPERATORS AND MINERS
Hold II Mcetlng and Endcavor to Arrange
for a Scale for Next Year. SO

for a Scale for Next Year. IsF8
An important meeting OF tho coal opera.
tors and minera Of this city was held yes.
tetday afternoon at the rooms Of the
Chamber Of Commerce on Main street.
The object OF the meeting was to arrange
for scale Of prices to be paid for mining
for the year commencing May |, that
should be satisfactory 10 all parties. The
meeting was called by q number OF the
operators who decided upon this move at
meeting held few days since. A letter
was addressed to each bank asking the
miners to send delegate and also to the
operators Of tho bank requesting them to
be represented at yesterdays meeting.
The operators present were Martin
Flanagan, OF Martin Flanagan & Co.,
Mr.. Van FoBsen, Of MarshatI, Vah Fossen
K Co., r. ]. smyth, OF the Manchester
Mining and Manufacturing Company, T.
E. Kssley, Of the "Home Union" mines,
D. r. Brooks, Of the Wheeling Mining and
Manufacturing Company, Patrick Dough.
esty, Of the Ritchietown coal works, Philip
KunlS OF the Bogg's Run Mining Com.
pany, Michael Bell, OF Michael Bell q
Sons, aud Elisha Donally, Of Captain
Schockey's bank. The Crescent was not
represented. NJ 9a..z59
The miners delegates were Mr.. McCon.
aughey, OF MARSHALL Van Fossen 4 Co.,
Mr.. Meyers, OF the Manchester mines,
Henry Foster, from those Of tho "Home
Union," Robert Walker and others, from
the Crescent, and Louis Freebolt from
the Wheeling Mining Company. The
other banks were not represented. 5
II will be observed that tho banks rep.
resented were all whit are known as ped
ding banks. The mill banks were not
invited to send Representatives., Mr..
Smyth presided aud Mr.. Brooks was sec.
rotary. The meeting was quite q stormy
one, and no definite conclusions were
reached, Another meeting will bs held
next Monday afternoon. y
In order to understand the status OF az
fairs between the miners here, 1t must
frat be understood that there are two
classes, those who belong to Local Union
No. l and who are under tho control OF
the Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Assem-.
bly, and those who call themselves the
Federation miners and who are termed
"blacksheep" by the first class. Both
claim to have been recognized at tho con.
vention held ct Columbus last week, and
both had representatives. at yesterdays
meeting. The. membership Of Local
Union No..l Ia made up Of miners from
both mill and peddling banks. leu
The convention held in Columbus fixed
the price Of mining coal in tho West Vir.
ginia district at II cents per ton. For
mining the same clsss Of coal on the other
side Of the river the price was fixed ut 60
cents. A manifest injustice WAS done the
operators right there. Added to this, is
the strong opposition the Wheeling oper-
ators have to contend with offered by the
operators of the mines at Moundsvilla,
Wellsburg, Elm Grove, Finlsyville and
other points. '1'l W Ma
l! WAS proposed that committee OF one
operator ind one miner should visit all
these points, consider the class Of work
carefully, the kind OF screens used and all
the other details OF mining and fix scale
and regulations for the mines here for the
coming year, but the confusion grew to be
so great by reason Of half dozen all try
ing to talk at once that 1t could not be
put and the meeting adjourned. Local
Union No. | put in an appearance by
It's executive committee, but not having
been invited was not recognized. The
cause Of the confusion was the springing
OF the question as to whether the SO.
called Federation men present as repre-
aentatives had right to vote. The meet
ing had not been called to decide as to the
merits Of the two associations, and it was
hoped that the question would not be
brought up, IS it was known what con-
fusion would result.